Film Idea

Our film idea is about a type of possesion. the demon is called Diabolus. Dialous is Latin for the Devil. The character I play is coming up to his 18th birthday. However, a psychic tells him he is is trouble and it needs to be sorted. The character doesnt know his birth parents and was found on the street as a kid. He was eventually adopted and taken to a home. The Psychic tells him his dad souled his sons soul to the devil and he didnt properly pay for what he was selling his sons soul for. THe psychic says that a ritual is needed to stop him becoming possesed on his 18th birthday. The psychic then trys to take into her own hands and perform the ritual. The ritual ends with the psychic becoming possessed and she trys to possess other people and kill them. Eventually after  alot of murders and many attempts to kill the boy she is killed by the boy. The boy then realises that its 10 minutes to his birthday and after them ten minutes he becomes possessed. The film ends with a close up of his eyes when it hits 12.00.

 

Diabolus perpetuates the work of several key narrative structural theorists, the first of which being Todorov. It follows the basic ideas of beginning with an equilibrium, which is disrupted by an event setting off a chain of events, creating disequilibrium. This is then resolved by the denouement and a new equilibrium is settled at the end. However, DIABOLUS does twist Todorov’s idea a little because when the audience think a new equilibrium has been reached, it turns out the psychic isn’t really dead and drags my character off screen meaning the audience has one last big scare and they are never sure what happens to him. Another theorist’s work that can be seen in our film idea is Propps work on character types. My character is obviously the typical ‘Hero’ however, you are never sure whether he thinks he can save the psychic (who would be the ‘Princess’ character type) or he is just trying to survive himself. The last theorist whose work fits Diablous is Barthes, who did work on binary opposition (the juxtaposition of two contrasting themes). Binary oppositions clear in our film idea are: good/evil, human/inhuman and trapped/free, the last being because the most terrifying moments of the film would be when my character is lost inside the barn buildings.